Dungeon Crafter and Tabletop Mapper

[Uller]

Hi all,

I recently discovered these two tools (after Morrus posted an update about Tabletop Mapper on the news page). They are two pretty nifty little tools. You can use Dungeon Crafter to make dungeon maps and then TMapper to run your game on the map. You can even hide portions of the map until the players enter them (or the DM unhides them). These tools won't replace Pnp gaming. You still need to track everything, but they look like they can be pretty handy.

I'm planning on starting to experiment with online gaming soon and these two tools will really help. I don't think I'd use them for an "off-line" game as I don't really like the idea of having to have my players look at my computer during play...

Dungeoncrafter has a decent sized community supporting it and you can find all manner of custom tile sets and what not.


Anyone use any of these?

 

[Darraketh]

I downloaded the Tabletop Mapper and I've been toying with it. I like the concept. The implementation is rough but it does the job.

I'd like to see the same concept applied to hex maps.

 

[Uller]

Yeah...but what do you want for free. I really like how it allows you to load a bitmap, to use for your map though. There are lots of features I'd like to see added (like some ability to draw stuff and add notes) and there are a few obvious bugs, but overall, I can work with it very easily. In fact, so far, I've been strongly considering just using MS Paint for battle illustrations. I haven't seen any free products worth using until TMapper.

(did I mention I'm cheap?)